These are good points, but they, too, reinforce the notion of the “good fatty.” Hobbes quotes a woman named Jessica, who has learned to perform as a “good fatty,” especially at social gatherings. She “nibbles on cherry tomatoes, drinks tap water, stays on her feet, ignores the dessert end of the buffet.” When fat people do things like this, or otherwise try to prove their healthiness to the thin people around them, it’s an attempt to signal that they’re not like the “bad fatties,” the ones who aren’t dieting, who publicly drink soda or eat a steak or take the elevator instead of the stairs ― so they should be treated with respect.
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